Author Archives: Ignacia Ruiz

1st Draft: After my proposed intervention in Unit 2 of the PGCert, I knew I wanted to address printmaking in large cohorts and how difficult it is to access those resources. The 1st draft focused more on the accessibility for … Continue reading →

Consent forms for interviews with Technicians and Academic staff. Interview questions: I’ve identified that workshops and interviews are the most adequate way to gather the data that I need for this project. Workshops with students using the 2 most requested … Continue reading →

WORKSHOP 1: Screenprinting with Specialist Communication Design students (October 2025) 2 groups of 41 students (82 students total) over 2 days. Bringing the print equipment into the teaching studio to give 82 students an introduction to basic printmaking as a … Continue reading →

My data collection tools where live workshops embedded into projects and interviews with print technicians and Academic staff involved. I identified the following ways of analysing the data collected: Bearing in mind that “Field notes are encoded with author’s conscience, … Continue reading →

A Movable Print Studio: How can larger cohorts of illustration Foundation students have access to printmaking in the absence of a permanent print studio at Lime Grove? During this academic year, building works have impacted the access to technical resources, … Continue reading →

“Mess tends to have connotations of being sloppy, of not being a good researcher. By tidying away the ‘messy area’, however, we believed that research reports were not only giving researchers a false sense of what participation in research might … Continue reading →

Tjora, A (2006). writing small discoveries: an exploration of fresh observer’s observations Qualitative research. Jones, L. (2010). documenting classroom life: how can I write about what I am seeing? Qualitative research. Hackathorn, J. (2011). ‘Learning by Doing: An Empirical Study of Active Teaching Techniques’, … Continue reading →

Introduction: The FAD course at UAL has moved to a new campus where the location of the print studio has become difficult to access. Students with limited mobility have not been considered in the layout of the new building as … Continue reading →

Some years ago, in the thick of online teaching in Blackboard Collaborate due to Covid-19 restrictions, I wrote and ran a workshop on Creative Drawing for Foundation students. One of the tasks was to make a self portrait that we … Continue reading →